For anyone else like me who needs to hear this right now more than ever Take care everyone ♥️ 💔 🫂 🎵 #MusicChallenge #RelativeMusic

#AllisonRussell ✍🏽 Our culture has a critical empathy deficit / impairment Our lack of empathy has a body count, and it has to stop A #Superlover is anyone who leans into #empathy and #forbearance and #compassion and #understanding and #forgiveness and #nonviolence m.youtube.com/watch?v=dxef...

#RelativeMusic I got to ask Kaia Kater about her biggest 🎵 influences growing up in Montreal & she said: Penny Lang 🇨🇦 PL first performed w/ her family aged 10 & became an icon on the local folk scene Kaia chose this song - and it is so beautiful #SpanishMoss 🌱

Jan is the 4th anniv of the passing of Sidney Poitier @kaiakater.bsky.social played a new 🎶 inspired by him & reminded me of Allison Russell’s #haiku on his passing *********************** Sidney Poitier Dignity personified Undeniable Man rich in daughters Rich in love and legacy All integrity

#RelativeMusic Had an amazing evening finally seeing Kaia Kater play for first time today 🪕 So today’s pick is from Kaia - she covers this song by Ola Belle Reed b.1912, Ola was a pioneering singer/songwriter 🪕player who recorded w/ her family OverByTheGraveyard

#RelativeMusic Patty Griffin & Robert Plant were in a relationship around the time this song was made in 2013 PG - It’s a story about the Underground Railroad, about slaves escaping 🎼Meet me in the evening where the river is low Meet me on the waters of the #Ohio

#RelativeMusic Continuing our tour of amazing under the radar 🎶 here’s Rhiannon Giddens w/ her sister Lalenja Harrington. Sibling harmony is special RG’s partner is fellow musician Francesco Turissi & just got tix for their May🇬🇧show today 😊 JustOneMoreDay LIVE m.youtube.com/watch?v=TpjX...

#RelativeMusic Super excited to see Kaia Kater’s 🇬🇧tour on Friday♥️ #FunFact it was Kaia’s mama who helped Allison Russell apply for a 🇨🇦writing grant in 2019 🔗 That grant helped make the recording of her debut solo album OutsideChild possible 🍁 #NinePin LIVE m.youtube.com/watch?v=jmvz...

#RelativeMusic On #MLKDay here’s Nina Simone performing a song w/by her bassist Gene Taylor shortly after hearing the news. In a busy world, it still stops me in my tracks Why? The King of Love is Dead 🎶 w/ her daughter Lisa Simone to follow in the reply LIVE m.youtube.com/watch?v=d3ji...

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#RelativeSounds Another I found thru Allison Russell’s playlist, Jan is amazing Indigenous 🇨🇦 artist Aysanabee’s b’day month 🎉 Orig called Evan Pang to try to avoid bigotry, Aysanabee reclaimed his grandfather’s name His grandpa’s voice ft in this 🔥song #Nomads m.youtube.com/watch?v=wBr4...

#RelativeMusic All My Tears (be washed away) Julie Miller wrote this gorgeous song. Here she is on harmonies w/ her partner Buddy Miller on 🎸 & EmmyLou Harris on lead vocals Allison Russell also covered this song in her PoGirl days. 🔗 to follow in reply LIVE 🕊️ m.youtube.com/watch?v=GGQV...

Here’s Allison Russell’s Womanica podcast on Ethel Waters 🌈 🎵 Some of her firsts as a 🖤woman: 1️⃣ to perform StLouisBlues & StormyMonday 1️⃣to star in integrated Broadway (cast by Irving Berlin) 1️⃣ to star in own TV show 1️⃣to sing on 📻 1️⃣ nom Emmy award www.podchaser.com/podcasts/wom...

Here’s Allison Russell’s Womanica podcast on Ethel Waters 🌈 🎵 Some of her firsts as a 🖤woman: 1️⃣ to perform StLouisBlues & StormyMonday 1️⃣to star in integrated Broadway (cast by Irving Berlin) 1️⃣ to star in own TV show 1️⃣to sing on 📻 1️⃣ nom Emmy award

I was first introduced to Ethel Waters by Rhiannon Giddens singing her Under A Harlem Moon & explaining how EW changed the lyrics RG ✍🏽 She owns every aspect of being a Black person. I get goose bumps every time I sing that song m.youtube.com/watch?v=gLue...

#RelativeMusic Ethel Waters is the great aunt of singer/ songwriter Crystal Waters of Gypsy Woman (she’s homeless) fame Ethel rose out of poverty & abuse to become & pioneering singer & actress - the first Black woman to have her own TV show & be nom for an Emmy m.youtube.com/watch?v=seRY...

He’s a one man monument to the heart and soul of American music. Pianist, singer, songwriter, producer, arranger, and cultural catalyst Allen Toussaint would be 88 today. His music is as alive as ever. #musicsky youtu.be/2TfVbFiDnlE?...

Anais Mitchell on Nic Jones 🗣️ His guitar playing feels so wide open, it sort of wraps you up in a cloak, telling other people’s stories but putting his ♥️ so squarely in the middle m.youtube.com/watch?v=rOwD...

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I was going to share this Jimmy LaFave song, Walk Away Renée Accordingly to legend, w/ by the Left Banke’s 🎹 player about the then-girlfriend of the bass player (who later went on to be a singer / voice coach) Jimmy’s version takes it to a new level

#RelativeSounds #AllisonRussell ✍🏽 we played at one of Jimmy LaFave’s final shows … that was the most spiritual, communal experience I’ve ever been part of This 🎥 is around then. Jimmy x Goodnight Irene & his son / community. So emotional & beautiful 🌺 💔 🎵

#RelativeMusic Rhiannon Giddens once posted on the topic of great but overlooked artists “Tuck & Patti Take My Breath Away!” Husb & wife duo, Tuck Andress x Patti Cathcart are a magical combination. Forever grateful for the comfort & beauty of their 🎶 🖤 ❤️

#RelativeMusic The #JoeHenry / Madonna’s brother in law 🔗 already been done, so here’s in tribute to Joe’s son Levon - an accomplished 🎷player Joe has produced some amazing artists, incl #BirdsOfChicago Real Midnight - here’s rare clip w/ Levon on 🎷 LIVE 2017

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic 🎼 #MusicChallenge 🎶 Day 14 A song about self discovery When an essential part of self discovery is self reclamation from trauma Allison Russell - 4th Day Prayer youtu.be/auq14M3ou4w?...

#RelativeSounds Belated HBD to Nic Jones, b. 9 Jan 1947 NJ suffered a serious car accident aged 35 but c30 yrs later returned to perform alongside his son Joe #MasterKilby 🎼I gave her some kisses Down by the seashore & still she lay asking Lay asking for more

#RelativeMusic Happy BD EMEL Mathlouthi! 🎉 #EMEL’s album MRA (Woman in Arabic) is the first album to be entirely made by women, fr artists to sleeve design Standing w/ 🇮🇷 / 🌍 protests, here’s her🔥 collab w/ French-Persian #BarbaraPravi Leve-Toi (Stand Up) 🕊️ m.youtube.com/watch?v=a54C...

#RelativeMusic Continuing our tour of hidden 💎 here’s one of the very first #BirdsOfChicago performances of Child’sGame / Kinderspel I’m in ♥️ with this 🎶 #AllisonRussell ✍🏽 JT Nero wrote this [just] before he knew he was going to be a dad 2013 LIVE in Eindhoven

#RelativeMusic HBD Valerie June! 🪄 🎉 Here’s Valerie x Carla Thomas #CallMeAFool The living Queen of the Memphis Sound, Carla w/ her father Rufus were pioneers of the Atlantic / Stax label sound This 🎥 of VJ w/ Carla in the studio at 79yo is just so joy-joyful m.youtube.com/watch?v=5n0p...

#RelativeSounds Aunt Molly Jackson x Roll On Buddy I found this album in my dad’s old record collection over Xmas AMJ was a singer / activist arising out of the Kentucky coal mine families & poverty of the Harlan County strikes New to me so sharing her spirit m.youtube.com/watch?v=db_E...

Iris DeMent was banned for writing this song. How these words still echo today. 🎼While we sit gloating in our greatness Justice sinks to the bottom of the sea m.youtube.com/watch?v=hhgb...

#RelativeMusic OK so here’s Allison Russell w/ her partner JT, her ex partner Awna & chosen sister Yola whilst a lockdown family Never been released but I ❤️ this! 🎼I’m a #SecondCousin of a sanctified sister And my mother & my father they were red hot lovers… 7:52~ m.youtube.com/watch?v=umd0...

Tim Readman kindly posted the below on the tribute album to the SouthHill Candy Shop & its owners (by artists including Tim, Allison Russell & her aunt Janet) from 1999 after it was burnt down by arson Wonderful how it’s now become a mythical place thanks to music, community & ARs 🎶 The Runner ♥️

I thought this might interest you. It's the benefit album we did to help the owners who lost their business.

#RelativeMusic #AllisonRussell moved from Montreal to Vancouver to escape her abusive stepfather Her folk singer aunt Janet lived there & invited AR to sing w/her at the South Hill Candy Shop There she found her salvation - in music #TheRunner tells the story 🎼 m.youtube.com/watch?v=s3Kk...

#RelativeMusic Happy Birthday Iris DeMent! 🎉 Iris x Greg Brown are 🔥musicians & partners Leaning On The Everlasting Arms is a hymn that Iris learnt from her mother This version is from her Lifeline album; a shorter version closes the Coen Bros 🎥 True Grit

#RelativeMusic For mothers everywhere Alice Randall ✍🏽 Scott Joplin’s mother played the banjo & sang…[yet] many scholars say NOTHING of what Florence Givens Joplin taught Scott Even w/out papa there was a 🪕 two 🎻 & 🎹 in the family The Entertainer played by SJ 1916 m.youtube.com/watch?v=ND2r...

#RelativeMusic Dionne Warwick, Cissy Houston and Whitney Houston + Leontyne Price A THREAD 🧵

#RelativeMusic Hi @shropshirelad.bsky.social your challenge got reposts & comment from Allison! ♥️ Even if you are not born into exactly the right family (Allison was abused by her stepfather) you can still find your chosen family 🎵

Allison Russell hosted the Womanica podcast on Whitney Houston in 2022 for BHM AR - “ a vocal inspiration to every singer I know” The first female singer to have an album topping the Billboard charts open.spotify.com/episode/6q0d...

#RelativeMusic The groundbreaking Black opera soprano Leontyne Price (ft last month) had two cousins you may have heard of… 1. Dionne Warwick LIVE NYE 1964 Walk On By m.youtube.com/watch?v=bpoB... 2. Whitney Houston (daughter of singer Cissy) A vocal inspiration m.youtube.com/watch?v=3JWT...

#RelativeMusic Amy Helm x Allison Russell x JT Nero #Gloryland A new to me 🎶 discovered🙏🏽 to this challenge A 🎶Amy learnt fr her much-missed father Levon & sung in tribute. AR on heavenly high harmonies 1. 2018 album version (🔗 to rare LIVE version follows) 💫 m.youtube.com/watch?v=teeM...

#RelativeSounds #StapleSingers x Sit Down Servant Staying in a gospel groove w/ an incredible performance from Mavis & family #Prince on #MavisStaples ✍🏽 I thought “this is my mother”. That’s how deeply her music, her voice, her presence affected me 🖤 LIVE 1963

#RelativeMusic b.1924, Clara Ward was a groundbreaking gospel singer who first started with her mother & sister as the Ward Singers Aretha Franklin came to one of her shows as a child. Clara became a mother figure to Aretha & AF sang at her funeral Swing Low 🎵 m.youtube.com/watch?v=YhrJ...

#AllisonRussell ✍🏽 Our ancestors survived worse. For their sake & our children’s sake We can do better We can be better We are one family, blood & bones One race - human - And so many beautiful colours. We have love. We can take better care of each other. Music helps Music heals Happy New Year 🌈

#EmojiSounds 💃 A magic rhythm to end the month Robert Glasper x Erykah Badu magical rework of the jazz OG w/ by 🇨🇺 Mongo Santamaria 🎼Elegant boy Beautiful Girl #Dancing for Joy Elegant whirl Shades of delight Cocoa hue Rich as the night #AfroBlue m.youtube.com/watch?v=MA81...

#EmojiSounds 🌍 Allison Russell x Brandi Carlile You’re Not Alone 🌈 Coalition ft Larissa Maestro, SistaStrings 🎻 Joy Clark, Mandy Fer 🎸Meg Coleman🪘 🎼 De l’Afrique a l’Acadie De l’Europe aux Ameriques La musique nous reunis (🎵unites us) Une famille (one family) m.youtube.com/watch?v=JjJ-...

#EmojiSounds 🎪 At my folks house for🎄& we started singing JP in the kitchen just like 50 yrs ago Thanks to my mum & dad for bringing me up right! 🎵 John Prine x Steve Goodman #Souvenirs 🎼Memories they can’t be boughten They can’t be won at #carnivals for free m.youtube.com/watch?v=aOTb...